H 18°, L 6° | Tomorrow: Minnesota elector mistakenly casts electoral vote ballot for John Edwards
“Senior moment,” indeed. Good luck on finals, everybody.
Update: Slate’s Timothy Noah says this is just one more example of the many “idiocies” of the Electoral College.
Herald blogs: The Republic
From the Not-All-Democrats-Are-Brainy-Intellectuals Dept.
Minnesota elector mistakenly casts electoral vote ballot for John Edwards “Senior moment,” indeed. Good luck on finals, everybody. Update: Slate’s…
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Cute bit of news…
As for the idiocy of the electoral college, however, I take issue. While the system does lead to bizare situations like the 2000 election where one candidate can get more votes than anyone else and still lose, I think it is a marvelous example of Federalism and reminder that we are the Unites STATES of America, not just America.
Moreover, though, I like the electoral college because it means that before you can be president, you have to travel to states like Iowa, Wisconsin, New Hampshire and Oregon, listening to the concerns of corn growers, dairy farmers, tourist operators and forest rangers. It is easy, once in the White House, to simply worry about all those people in California, New York, Florida, Texas and nearby on the East Coast, but this assures that a president must - at least somewhere in the back of his or her mind - know about the issues that involve some of the less-noted states that are unlikely to be visited by a sitting president ordinarilly.